Bollywood star Sonakshi Sinha opens up about rejecting scathing reviews and her role in 'Dahaad'

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Bollywood actress Sonkashi Sinha, who made her acting debut with Salman Khan in the 2010 blockbuster ‘Dabangg’, is poised for her career’s first web series with an eight-part crime drama ‘Daahad’, releasing on May 12.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/watch-why-does-bollywood-star-sonakshi-sinha-reject-scathing-reviews-dahaad-actress-spills-all-1.95691616  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Indian #sonakshisinha

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00:00Well, I wouldn't say it's the final thing. It's the beginning of great things and new things and

00:05hopefully it'll continue this way. But yeah, I agree with you. I'm underutilized.

00:13You should tell all the directors and producers, what are you guys doing?

00:20Is this the final thing where you know, we can see you really,

00:24you know, they extracted your full potential?

00:27Well, I wouldn't say it's the final thing. It's the beginning of great things and new things and

00:32hopefully it'll continue this way. But yeah, I agree with you. I'm underutilized.

00:40You should tell all the directors and producers, what are you guys doing?

00:45But you know, Reema and Zoya came at such a correct time and this is when I was really

00:51waiting for a role like this which I can really sink my teeth into. And you know, working with

00:56creators like them is such a pleasure for any actor. The way they've written the entire series,

01:02the way they've written all the roles, my character. It was truly such a wonderful

01:11experience being this character on screen and I'm truly grateful to them.

01:15Do you think they're a lot more sensitive as filmmakers because they're women or do you find it different?

01:20I think as directors, I've worked with Reema, not Zoya. I would love to work with her

01:25but as directors who are female bring a different sensitivity to the way they approach subjects.

01:32This is the second time I've worked with a female director. The perspective is very different from

01:38how they explain it to how they shoot it to how they bring out you know the character from an

01:45actor. It's different but again saying that I just think they're very, very they are just brilliant

01:51minds. The way they know how to fight for what they want, it all just adds, it just makes them

01:59amazing and I feel you know they're not the kind of regular producers who are doing this only for

02:04the business of minding. They are creators. They want to create something beautiful from scratch.

02:11Their first priority is that we have to create something beautiful. They are truly creative

02:17and it's a pleasure working with them.

02:18What kind of homework did you do? Like did you talk to these guys? Did you observe or did you

02:22watch a lot of procedurals and documentaries you know just to know to look that certain way and

02:28because this is not your world like this is not where you come from actually right? This is not your job.

02:33Not at all but my job is an actor's job and it's the best job in the world. I can be whoever I want to be.

02:40That is true and you're doing great.

02:43Yeah but no so my what I this is a favourite genre of mine. I love watching crime dramas

02:50even you know when I have some time off so I've seen a lot of shows, a lot of movies from this

02:58genre so it's pretty much there in my head and I pick up like by watch observing people, by

03:04watching the behaviour, by speaking to them, by looking at them from afar so and my biggest

03:10homework is speaking to my directors like I like to pick their brain and understand what

03:15their vision really is for when they want me to play a character so having done that when we

03:21landed up to shoot in Rajasthan, Harima would every day call you know maybe one or two

03:28female officers just to hang around the set to teach us how to salute right, get the salute proper

03:35and stuff like that so talking to them, seeing how they are you pick up a few things here and

03:40there you keep those in your mind and that's how you kind of you know then you use them whenever

03:45you need to as an actor when you're playing a character. Certain other things like the body

03:49language, the walk, the you know the stance, the salute all of that comes I felt it came

03:57automatically to me when I wore the uniform. That uniform just brings a sense of authority and

04:03power that doesn't come on with anything else so that was half the battle one then of course I had

04:10to learn how to ride a bike, work on my dialect and stuff like that to to really become Anjali

04:16Bhatti so it was a really enjoyable experience.

04:20It's very different for you right, it's not a Bollywood song and dance musical, it's not.

04:25Not at all, not at all and that that was the refreshing change for me as well to be able to do

04:32that right now. I'm telling you I'm feeling the same way I felt when my first film was

04:38releasing, this is my first day digital, this is my debut and I'm feeling the exact same way.

04:46Do you think you felt as if you were liberated like there's not just three hours, this can go on

04:51for hours you can really like show your heft?

04:54Yeah, it felt it felt good to be able to live with the character so much longer. I feel like the

04:59first few days we were kind of figuring out and then once you get into it, you get into it and

05:04when you enjoy this character which I loved it from the get-go like when I read the script only

05:10when I heard the narration that's when I fell in love with the character so for me to be able to

05:15live with her for that much longer where she's developed in every episode moving forward you

05:23know you get the makers get that much time to kind of sketch out each and every character in

05:27that and that's so nice you know.

05:28There's another trailblazer there it's called Vijay Verma who I'm telling you he's so good if

05:33he's in the series you know we just take off how was it he has the most deadpan expression, the

05:38most unassuming, most serial killers are like that in series, they fly under the radar as we say it

05:44but was it good to act with such a powerhouse talent like what did you observe about him?

05:50It was it's you know for an actor it's the best most satisfying thing when you share screen

05:58space or the same scene with other good actors and everyone on this show has been so phenomenal

06:07right from Vijay to Gulshan to Soham there's so many other characters in our show that that you

06:13know have really excelled in their parts. For an actor to be able to kind of just you know feed

06:19off the energy of another good actor is the best thing.

06:24There's been a lot of talk about police brutality, how it's glorified in movies etc.

06:28Were you guys very sensitive as well that that's not the case you know just to throw your

06:33weight around and glorify it?

06:36No you know we're telling a story, we're telling

06:39a story which is completely fictional. Yes, we are playing police officers but then we're

06:46showing you all kinds. There's officers like Anjali Bhatti, there's officers like Gulshan

06:51Devaiah who are so righteous and will do anything to make sure the right thing happens.

06:59Then there are certain other people in every profession you know you'll find all sorts right

07:03so that's what we're showing here as well there was no intention to kind of bring out the bad

07:08side or show only the good side. We're just playing it straight.

07:12Are you scared of the reviews my friend?

07:14I've always kind of gone by what the feedback I've gotten from from real people maybe I mean

07:21everybody's real but like I mean people I meet, people I see, whatever I read online stuff like

07:27that. I actually stopped reading reviews a while back because in my initial years only because

07:35the films were big blockbusters but the reviews were always bad so I was like confused what is

07:42happening with my life you know so I just stopped reading them but yeah the hope is that always

07:50that you know people enjoy my work no matter where they see it and yeah I'm moving forward just with that.

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